1962 Relativity for the Million New York: MacMillan Company (o.p.). Revised and updated 1976 as The Relativity Explosion New York: Vintage Books. Revised and enlarged 1996 as Relativity Simply Explained New York: Dover; ISBN 0-486-29315-7

Martin Gardner's columns from Scientific American are printed in 15 books. Don Knuth calls these books "the Canon".

Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions: The First Scientific American Book of Puzzles and Games 1959; University of Chicago Press 1988 ISBN 0-226-28254-6 (originally published as The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions)

The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions 1961; University of Chicago Press 1987; ISBN 0-226-28253-8

↑This book is a reprint of The Mathematical Gardner, published by Wadsworth. Mathematicians wrote this book to thank Gardner when he retired from writing his Scientific American column in 1981. Important mathematicians submitted papers for this book. This shows Gardner's importance.